Necktie



July '30, 1946. J. E. JOHNSON NEGKTIE Filed May 2, 1944 '2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented July 30, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

This invention relates to so-called four-inhand neckties and aims to provide a novel and improved arrangement for attachment of the terminal portions of the necktie to each other and to a shirt button. Heretofore, various arrangements for accomplishing this object have been proposed but all of those with which I am familiar are open to certain objections, such as undue complexity, difiiculty in manipulation, and high cost. The present invention aims to obviate these objections.

The invention will best be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings of four specific embodiments thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of a necktie embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of a second embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 3 is "a rear elevation of a variation of the necktie shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a variation of the necktie shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings and to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Fig. 1, there is shown a necktie having a wide terminal portion 4 and a narrow terminal portion 6, the former having margins 8 and ID to be lapped, as shown, so as to encompass the narrow terminal portion and to restrain the latter. These margins are not stitched together as is usual but are secured to each other only temporarily by the means now to be described.

To this end, the margins 8 and Ill are provided, respectively, with apertures I2 and I4, with button-hole stitches about them to keep the fabric from fraying, while a ligature such as a heavy, cylindrical thread or light cord l6 twisted or braided has one end permanently secured at I 8 to the narrow terminal portion at its free end 20 stiffened as by a body of plastic material molded about it to facilitate its manipulation so that it may readily be passed first through the opening M, then through the opening I2, and then through a button-hole in a shirt front. After pulling the thread snug, the thread is wound about the shirt button and the latter is buttoned into the buttonhole through which the thread. has been passed. Thus the necktie terminals are secured together and to the shirt by simple and effective but inexpensive means.

In the second embodiment shown in Fig. 2, the

necktie is of a standard construction with usual wide and narrow terminal portions 22 and 24,0ne simply laid upon the other, the wide portion having both ends of a tape 26 sewed thereto to form a loop to receive the narrowv portion. This tape is provided with an aperture 28, button-hole stitched to prevent fraying. A thread 30 attached at one end at 32 to the narrow terminal portion is passed through the aperture 28, then through the shirt button-hole and finally wound about the button which is then buttoned into the button-hole, thus restraining both terminal portions of the necktie.

Fig. 3 shows a variation of the necktie illustrated in Fig. l, and is precisely the same except that the narrow terminal portion is provided with an aperture 34. If it is found that the narrow end hangs down beyond the wide terminal portion, as shown in Fig. 3. the narrow portion may be drawn up out of sight by passing the ligature 36 first through the aperture 34, then through the other two apertures, after which the ligature is passed through a button-hole in a shirt and wound about the corresponding button which is then buttoned into the button-hole. This avoids an unsightly narrow terminal portion hanging below the wide terminal portion.

Fig. 4 shows a Variation of the necktie illustrated in Fig. 2. The tape with its aperture shown in Fig. 2 is omitted, an aperture 38 is provided in the narrow terminal portion, and the ligature 40, now fastened to the wide terminal port on of the necktie, is passed through the aperture 38, thence through the shirt buttonhole. and is then wound about the corresponding button which is then buttoned into the buttonhole. This keeps the terminal portions of the necktie together and attached to the shirt.

Having thus described certain embodiments of the inve tion what I cla m is:

1. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion being arranged to encompass the narrow terminal portion, the narrow terminal portion having a ligature with a free end. and the wide terminal portion having inwardly folded and connected margins presenting above their lower ends at least one aperture through which said free end may be passed for subsequent attachment of said ligature to a shirt button.

2. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion being arranged to encompass the narrow terminal portion, the narrow terminal portion having a twine with a stiffened free end, and the 3 wide terminal portion having inwardly folded and connected margins presenting above their lower ends an aperture through which said free end may be passed for subsequent attachment of said ligature to a shirt button.

3. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion having margins to be lapped to encompass the narrow terminal portion, the latter having a ligature with a free end, and said margins having apertures through which said free end may be passed for subsequent attachment of said ligature to a shirt button.

4. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion having margins to be lapped across the narrow terminal portion, the latter having a twine with a stiffened free end, and said margins having apertures through which said free end may be passed for holding said margins together and for attaching said ligature to a shirt button.

5. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion having margins to be lapped to encompass the narrow terminal portion, said margins being provided, respectively, with apertures and said narrow terminal portion being provided with an aperture, and a ligature attached to the narrower terminal portion and having a free end to be passed through the aperture in said narrow terminal portion and thence through said apertures in said margin.

6. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, one having a ligature attached thereto and the other having an aperture therein below the point of attachment of said ligature and through which aperture the free end of said ligature is first passed to keep the terminal portions, after which said ligature may be attached to a shirt button.

'7. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, the wide terminal portion having means to restrain the narrow terminal portion, said means having at least one aperture therein, and a ligature attached to one of said terminal portions, extending through said aperture, and having a free end for attachment to a shirt button.

3. A four-in-hand necktie having wide and narrow terminal portions, one having means to encompass the second and having an aperture, and the second having attached thereto a ligature to be passed through said aperture and having a free end for attachment to a shirt button.

JOSEPH E. JOHNSON. 

